Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Register Now! 2019 FEED Conference-
Friday, 3/22 from 8 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. in the Emory 1599 Building. This exciting half day program will offer the following sessions: "Strategies to focus in a distracting world" with a choice of breakout sessions: - "There's an app for that - clinical and patient apps"
- "Surviving the reproducibility crisis"
- "How to handle the troublesome trainee"
Reminder: Research Resources 101 - “Emory Healthcare innovation hub: Innovating innovation"
Thursday, 2/21 at noon in SOM 170A. Remote participation is also available via Zoom. Click here or use meeting ID 206-860-575 to participate via a mobile device. Register | Read more
Emory University Hospital is currently enrolling hypertension clinical trials aimed at lowering blood pressure using novel device therapies
Eligibility requirements: - Patients newly diagnosed or on ≤ 2 anti-HTN medications
- Resistant Hypertensives on ≥ 3 anti-HTN medications
Interested participants or referring providers may contact the Interventional Cardiology Research Department: Amanda Fiebach, RN 404.686.7468 OR Chandan Devireddy, MD cdevire@emory.edu. 2019 Award Competition: Microsystems-based point of care testing for acute, emergency, and critical care
medicine
The Atlanta Center for Microsystems-Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies (ACME POCT), based at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech, announces an award competition for collaborative research projects to accelerate development of microsystems-based POC technologies that can provide rapid and clinically actionable results enabling physicians to make prompt diagnosis, define risk stratification, establish early therapy or make changes to therapy for acutely or critically ill patients. Apply | Read more
Need help navigating the Department of Medicine Research Administration Service (RAS) Unit? The DOM RAS Unit has issued a one-page document to assist you in working your way through the grant submission process starting with pre-award. Download PDF
Manuscript Publication Resources
The Department of Medicine (DOM) Office of Research offers many programs, resources and tools to help faculty and postdoctoral fellows with their research endeavors. Read more
Need help identifying target journals and how to avoid predatory journals? Explore Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE).
Funding & Award Opportunities
Weekly NIH funding opportunities and notices
Federal funding opportunities for public health faculty
Searchable database of internal medicine funding opportunities National Kidney Foundation - young investigator research grant
Deadline: Friday, 2/8 The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is dedicated to preventing kidney and urinary tract diseases, improving the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by kidney disease and increasing the availability of all organs for transplantation. Read more
Patient safety learning laboratories (2019): Pursuing safety in diagnosis and treatment at the intersection of design, systems engineering, and health services research (R18)
Deadline: Thursday, 2/28 This R18 Request for Application (RFA) calls for the creation and utilization of Patient Safety Learning Laboratories. These learning laboratories are places and networks where transdisciplinary teams identify closely related threats to diagnostic or treatment efforts associated with a high burden of harm and cost. Read more Addressing the role of violence on HIV care and viral suppression (R01 clinical trial optional)
Deadline: Friday, 3/8 This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites applications on violence and the HIV care continuum, including: (1) research that will advance understanding of the role of exposure to violence on engagement and retention in HIV care, HIV medication adherence, and viral suppression, and (2) research to develop and test novel interventions to improve HIV care continuum outcomes for individuals who have experienced violence. Read more Global noncommunicable disease prevention and health promotion
Deadline: Monday, 3/25 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to promote health, provide expertise and training to regions and countries across the globe to prevent and control non-communicable diseases, their risk factors, and related causes through effective regional, national and community health programs in collaboration with the recipient. Read more Pilot and exploratory projects in palliative care of cancer patients and their families
Deadline: Monday, 4/1 This mechanism is intended to provide support for a small pilot or exploratory project whose purpose is to test interventions, develop research methodologies and explore novel areas as defined in the RFA. Read more Patient reported outcomes tool development for use in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis clinical trials (U01) clinical trial optional
Deadline: Thursday, 4/4 The purpose of this FOA is to support research to develop and qualify a Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) for Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis (NCFB) under FDA’s Drug Development Tools Qualification Program. This would include the qualitative phase of developing the instrument, quantitative phase of testing the instrument, and qualification of the instrument. Read more
Validating human stem cell cardiomyocyte technology for better predictive assessments of drug induced cardiac toxicity (U01 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Thursday, 4/4 Cardiovascular toxicity is a leading cause of drug attrition in drug development. Proarrhythmia, QT prolongation and Torsade de Pointes (TdP) contribute the most to this attrition and these outcomes drive the efforts spent to eliminate them from the drug discovery pipeline. Currently, these endpoints are evaluated through in vivo preclinical studies followed by a thorough-QT (TQT) study in the clinical phase. Read more
Economic modeling for HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis
Deadline: Friday, 4/12 This notice of FOA is to support epidemiologic and economic modeling of disease transmission to facilitate prevention effectiveness of public health interventions and support state and local disease prevention efforts. Read more
George Beck (Endocrinology) received funding from NIAMS for a R21 entitled, “Targeted nanoparticles for biomedical applications." Guillermo Umpierrez, Georgia Davis (Endocrinology) received funding Dexcom INC for a project entitled, “Dexcom G6 observational study: Inpatient and post-hospital discharge assessment of glycemic control by capillary point-of-care glucose testing and by continuous glucose monitoring in insulin-treated patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.” Zhiyong Lin (Cardiology) received funding for a R01 from the NHLBI for a project entitled, “Role of protein photophase 2A in aortic aneurysm.”
Have you or a colleague recently received an award or grant funding?
Division Research Seminars
Thursday, 2/7 at 8 a.m. inthe Whitehead, Conference Room 200
Pulmonary Division Research Seminar: “Alveolar epithelial vulnerability: Lessons from rare disease models” (Susan Guttentag, MD)
Thursday, 2/7 at 8 a.m. in the Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor, SPH
Infectious Disease Seminar: “Living better for longer: Molecular determinants of healthspan, frailty, and disease susceptibility” (Daniel Kalman, PhD)
Monday, 2/11 at 9 a.m. in the Emory University Hospital, Hurst Conference Room, E450
Cardiovascular Biology Seminar: “Oxidative stress and cu transporter proteins in vascular metabolic disease” (Tohru Fukai, MD, PhD, FAHA, Augusta University)
Monday, 2/11 at 5 p.m. in the Woodruff Memorial Research Building, Room 317
Endocrine Conference: (Thomas Ziegler, MD)
Tuesday, 2/12 at 5 p.m. in the School of Medicine, Room 170A
Renal Grand Rounds: (Kenneth Bernstein, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
Recent Notable Publications
Nadine Rouphael, Monica Farley (Infectious Diseases)
Pimenta F, Gertz RE Jr, Park SH, Kim E, et al. “Streptococcus infantis, Streptococcus mitis, and Streptococcus oralis strains with highly similar cps5 loci and antigenic relatedness to serotype 5 Pneumococci.” Front Microbial. 2019 Jan 8;9:3199. Read more Graham Smith, David Markham, Andrea Mitchell, Miranda Moore, Alanna Morris, Candace Speight, Neal Dickert (Cardiology)
Smith GH, Shore S, Allen LA, Markham DW, et al. “Discussing out-of-pocket costs with patients: Shared decision making for sacubitril-valsartan in heart failure.” J Am Heart Assoc. 2019 Jan 8;8(1):e010635. Read more Xin Hu, Joshua Chandler, Ken Liu, Jolyn Fernandes, Michael Orr, Ryan Smith, Chunya Ma, Karan Uppal, Dean Jones, Young-Mi Go (Pulmonary)
Hu X, Chandler JD, Park S, Liu K, et al. “Low-dose cadmium disrupts mitochondrial citric acid cycle and lipid metabolism in mouse lung.” Free Radic Biol Med. 2019 Feb 1;131:209-217 Read more Matthew Topel, Pratik Sandesara, Eric Stahl, Salim Hayek, Ayman Samman Tahhan, Wesley T. O’Neal, Yi-An Ko, Ayman Alkhoder, Mohamad Mazen Gafeer, Jonathan Kim, Peter Wilson, Leslee Shaw, Laurence Sperling, Arshed Quyyumi (Cardiology)
Topel ML, Sandesara PB, Stahl EP, Hayek SS, et al. “Mechanisms underlying the J-curve for diastolic blood pressure: Subclinical myocardial injury and immune activation.” Int J Cardiol. 2019 Feb 1;276:255-260. Read more
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Reminder: 2nd Annual Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Conference
Deadline to register is Friday, 2/8. The conference takes place from Thursday, 2/28 through Friday, 3/1 at Callaway Resort and Gardens in Pine Mountain, GA. This event features, Michael G. Kurilla, MD, PhD (Director, Division of Clinical Innovation for the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health) as the keynote speaker. His presentation topic is entitled, “Translational science: Addressing unmet & unknown medical needs.” Register | Read more
Last Call: K-Club - “Lessons learned from the K application process”
Monday, 2/11 at noon in Egleston, Classrooms 3-5. This February installment of K-club features Janet Gross, PhD, Grant writing consultant and course director for the Emory MSCR Grant & Scientific Writing Class. Panelists include I. Raul Badell, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Emory Transplant Center, Emory University School of Medicine; Jonathan H. Kim, MD, MSc, FACC, Chief of Sports Cardiology Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Orthopedics, Emory University; J. Lucas McKay PhD, MSCR, Associate Director, Neuromechanics Laboratory, Assistant Professor, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Tech; Soumitri Sil, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Psychologist, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine. Register | Read more Register Now! “Advancing intervention science and promoting health equity using innovative quantitative methods”
Tuesday, 2/12 at 4 p.m. This web-based seminar is sponsored by Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Bethany Bray (Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Study) will present this topic. Read more "Because sex matters in science..." Come explore the newly funded Emory Specialized Center of Research Excellence on Sex Differences (Emory SCORE)
Thursday, 2/14 from 4-6 p.m. in the School of Medicine lobby
Emory has a wealth of organizations who are committed to advancing human health and wellness through promoting rigorous science. Register | Read more (PDF) Register Now! 2019 Georgia Public Health
Association annual meeting and conference
Tuesday, 5/7-Thursday, 5/9 at the Westin Buckhead in Atlanta. Conference speakers include Dr. Jose F. Cordero on Tuesday, 5/7 (Patel Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Department Head of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department at the University of Georgia, College of Public Health) and David Gibbs (Senior Associate for Community Initiatives and Principle at Social Capital Consulting) will serve as the keynote on Thursday, 5/9. The abstract submission deadline has passed.
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Sara Turbow
Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics
What is your professional background?
I received my MD and MPH in Epidemiology from Emory in 2012, stayed here for Internal Medicine/Primary Care residency, then joined the faculty at Grady in 2015. I have been in the Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics ever since. I spend my time on the wards, in resident primary care clinic, in Hepatitis C clinic, and on educational and administrative roles in the Internal Medicine Residency program. In what division do you work, and who is your mentor?
I am in the Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics at Grady Memorial Hospital. I have been fortunate to have many wonderful mentors; my primary research mentors are Mo Ali (RSPH) and Kim Rask. Briefly describe your research. Why is it important?
I am a health services researcher and my primary interests are high-utilizer patients and inter-hospital fragmentation of care. When patients are readmitted to a different hospital than they were previously discharged from, their care becomes fragmented—leading to higher costs, longer lengths-of-stay, duplicate imaging tests and medications, and higher mortality, both in the hospital and after discharge. I am interested in understanding the causes and effects of fragmented care on patients and the health system, as well as evaluating possible solutions, including health information exchanges and personal health records. This is an important problem because it is common (over 25% of re-admissions nationally are fragmented), yet we don’t have effective ways to prevent, capture, measure, or address it. What do you like most
about Emory?
I love the people I get to work with every day! What is your favorite movie or TV show?
My favorite movie is The Devil Wears Prada. What do you like to do in your spare time?
I love to run, lift weights, and hang out with my toddler.
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